Imaginary Conversations and Poems: A Selection
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Walter Savage Landor was a 19th century English writer and poet. His best known works were the prose Imaginary Conversations, and the poem Rose Aylme. In Imaginary Conservations Landor used a varied selection of historical characters from Greek philosophers to contemporary writers. He wrote conversations between pairs of characters that covered areas of philosophy, politics, romance and many other topics. This volume also contains some of Landor's poems including, She I love (alas in vain!), Pleasure! why thus desert the heart, Past ruin'd Ilion Helen lives, Ianthe! you are call'd to cross the...
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- IMAGINARY CONVERSATIONS AND POEMS: A SELECTION
- WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR
- CONTENTS
- IMAGINARY CONVERSATIONS
- THE PENTAMERON
- POEMS
- IMAGINARY CONVERSATIONS
- MARCELLUS AND HANNIBAL
- QUEEN ELIZABETH AND CECIL
- EPICTETUS AND SENECA
- PETER THE GREAT AND ALEXIS
- HENRY VIII AND ANNE BOLEYN
- JOSEPH SCALIGER AND MONTAIGNE
- BOCCACCIO AND PETRARCA
- BOSSUET AND THE DUCHESS DE FONTANGES
- FOOTNOTES:
- JOHN OF GAUNT AND JOANNA OF KENT
- LEOFRIC AND GODIVA
- ESSEX AND SPENSER
- LORD BACON AND RICHARD HOOKER
- FOOTNOTE:
- OLIVER CROMWELL AND WALTER NOBLE
- FOOTNOTE:
- LORD BROOKE AND SIR PHILIP SIDNEY
- FOOTNOTE:
- SOUTHEY AND PORSON
- THE ABBÉ DELILLE AND WALTER LANDOR
- DIOGENES AND PLATO
- ALFIERI AND SALOMON THE FLORENTINE JEW
- ROUSSEAU AND MALESHERBES
- LUCULLUS AND CAESAR
- EPICURUS, LEONTION, AND TERNISSA
- FOOTNOTES:
- DANTE AND BEATRICE
- FRA FILIPPO LIPPI AND POPE EUGENIUS THE FOURTH
- FOOTNOTE:
- TASSO AND CORNELIA
- FOOTNOTES:
- LA FONTAINE AND DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULT
- LUCIAN AND TIMOTHEUS
- BISHOP SHIPLEY AND BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
- SOUTHEY AND LANDOR
- THE EMPEROR OF CHINA AND TSING-TI
- LOUIS XVIII AND TALLEYRAND
- OLIVER CROMWELL AND SIR OLIVER CROMWELL
- FOOTNOTES:
- THE COUNT GLEICHEM: THE COUNTESS: THEIR CHILDREN, AND ZAIDA.
- THE PENTAMERON;
- INTERVIEWS OF MESSER GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO AND MESSER FRANCESCO PETRARCA
- THE PENTAMERON
- FIRST DAY’S INTERVIEW
- FOOTNOTE:
- THIRD DAY’S INTERVIEW
- FOOTNOTES:
- FOURTH DAY’S INTERVIEW
- FOOTNOTE:
- FIFTH DAY’S INTERVIEW
- POEMS
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- VI
- VII
- VIII
- IX
- X
- FIESOLE IDYL
- XI
- XII
- XIII
- XIV
- XV
- XVI
- ON SEEING A HAIR OF LUCRETIA BORGIA
- XVII
- XVIII
- TO WORDSWORTH
- XIX
- TO CHARLES DICKENS
- XX
- TO BARRY CORNWALL
- XXI
- TO ROBERT BROWNING
- XXII
- AGE
- XXIII
- XXIV
- XXV
- XXVI
- XXVII
- A PASTORAL
- XXVIII
- THE LOVER
- XXIX
- THE POET WHO SLEEPS
- XXX
- DANIEL DEFOE
- XXXI
- IDLE WORDS
- XXXII
- TO THE RIVER AVON
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